The Jacksonville (FL) Symphony has received the largest donation in its 75-year history from longtime supporters Preston and Joan Haskell. The $5 million will go toward the endowment as well as capital improvements. The orchestra, which prides … » Read

The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (KWS) in Ontario will live to play again. Following a sudden announcement in September 2023 that the ensemble, unable to meet its financial obligations, was canceling its season , bankruptcy appeared likely to be … » Read

Audience members are quick to recognize the musicians as they come on stage in their concert attire just before a performance begins. Less recognizable, perhaps, is the individual who drops the conductor’s score on his music stand. That … » Read

Martin Sher, senior VP of artistic planning and programs at New World Symphony (NWS), will move to the Detroit Symphony to take up the new position of Vice President and Chief Artistic & Operating Officer, one of three senior executives under … » Read

Last January, the 187-year old Baltimore Sun newspaper was purchased by David D. Smith, executive chairman of the media conglomerate Sinclair Inc., which owns or operates 185 local television stations across the country. Smith, a … » Read

Good news for classical music lovers in the Bay Area, and elsewhere. Joshua Kosman, for 36 years the San Francisco Chronicle’s music critic until he retired this past April, is back. He can now be found at On a Pacific Aisle on Substack, … » Read

The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra , which claims to be the most recorded, broadcast, and streamed orchestra in Australia, is to receive $9.6 million state government funding over the next four years. When announcing the funding, Minister for the … » Read

Limor Tomer, general manager of Live Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the last 13 years, is to be the new VP of programming and production at Orange County’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts as of January 2025. She succeeds Judy … » Read

Il trovatore ’s dramaturgy has long drawn condescension. The Marx Brothers famously used Verdi’s opera to mock the entire genre; a recent article on the website Parterre Box decried its weakness of “dramatic continuity and … » Read

Carl St. Clair, who joined the Pacific Symphony in 1990 (and coyly suggests this will be his last year as music director ), can now lay claim to being the longest-tenured American-born conductor of a major U.S. orchestra. When he arrived, he … » Read